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1) producing feelings of sympathy and wanting to help (appealing)

2) wanting to know (asking)

3) (of a hen) wanting to brood (broody)

4) wanting things eagerly (especially something belonging to another person) (covetous)

5) wanting very much (to learn, know) (curious)

6) wanting something seriously (desirous)

7) a seriousness in wanting to do something successfully (determination)

8) (of behaviour, something said) causing no harm; not wanting to harm (innocuous)

9) (of, like) a person wanting to take (political) power by force (insurgent)

10) (an instance of) wanting to know or learn (more) about a person or thing; the money charged or paid for borrowing; a legal right to share in a business etc, especially in its profits (interest)

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Meaning:
bereft

without luck, happiness etc

lacking; missing

defective

imperfect

broken, not working

empty

having nothing inside

containing nothing

failing

a weakness or fault (of character); in the absence of

not well, weak

insufficient

not sufficient

not enough; lacking

meager

not enough

small, inadequate; poor

non-existent

not present, real

deficient in something needed or usual

scant

(having) hardly enough

meager

scarce

not available in sufficient quantity; difficult to find

insufficient, infrequent

skimpy

being (almost) too small

sparse, inadequate

unaccounted for

not explained, taken into consideration

gone, absent

unfurnished

without furniture

without covering or content

WANTING as in Wiktionary
WANTING as in Wikipedia